When Georgia was on the verge of joining in 2008, ’s president stirred up bitter separatist tensions, made baseless claims of genocide, and carried out military exercises nearby.His proxies fired pot-shots over the border, then evacuated civilians from areas under their control, on the bogus pretext of saving them from aggression.There was a short war that ended with Russian tanks 30 miles from the capital Tbilisi and two chunks of the country breaking away as self-declared republics.
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